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I'm not sure if English is the hardest language to learn, but, to be perfectly fair, we need to consider the person learning it. For someone who speaks Afrikaans, English will not be too hard, since they're similar languages. For someone who speaks, say, Korean, it will be a lot harder because there's so much distance between the two.

The US State Department has a list of languages that are hardest to learn for native English speakers, which is interesting, but not too helpful for us (Arabic Cantonese Mandarin Japanese German).

Assuming equidistance - some kind of theoretical learner who has no particular proximity to any language, but still needs to learn it through study - I think it remains hard to assume that English is the hardest language. German has very hard grammar, for example, and Chinese has a terrifyingly hard alphabet.